On Wed, 20 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> There's just no *point*.
Put another way: we lived without DEBUG_RODATA for fifteen years, why
should we now start adding complexity to work around code that doesn't
accept the (fairly small) debugging it gives?
Has anybody actually found a bug using it?
As far as I know, the biggest reason to use DEBUG_RODATA is
(a) Hey, it's a cheap way to check one thing
(b) An added layer of security (which it's not that great for, but it
might make sense to make it more of a real security feature).
and neither of them really seems to say "let's add more code to other
pieces of the kernel to work around it" to me.
Linus
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
